The training comes one week after a Chicago firefighter collapsed and died in the stairwell of a Gold Coast high rise.
– Hundreds of firefighters from across the Chicago area gathered in Glenview on Wednesday for some intense training simulating a raging fire in a high-rise building.There's a fine line between training and battling a fire.
"This is the real deal," Hoff said."They have fire conditions. They have heat conditions. They have heavy smoke conditions." "High rise fires, they're very rare. They're very taxing, labor intensive," said Glenview Fire Chief Tony Derose.
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